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Strategic counsel for over 27 years, with leading corporates across diverse sectors. Independent Director across multiple sectors. Advises organisations on the intersection of finance, digital, consumption economy, GEMZ (Gig Economy, Millennials, gen Z) & ESG. Coaches & mentors senior leaders. Active engagement across industry-growth policy conversations & public policy issues. Visiting faculty at various management schools and with regulatory learning centres. Prolific media columnist across topics he works with. He is also the Editor and co-author of ‘Time for Bharat’ (book on public governance). Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. Posts all published work at https://srinath.blog
Inflation is like a headache; there is no point in finding solace that one’s headache is less severe than someone else’s ! With global issues impacting national economies, let us brace for some economic pain ahead
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As India gets set to meet its Net Zero 2070 goals, much of the actual feet-on-field efforts have to come from Corporate India. Currently #ESG is a hashtag for stakeholders, excluding a few outliers. We need proactive policies that demand ESG positivity, and yet not ESG shame. The markets will reward those who adopt these in true spirit and measure. With a sixth of the world on its shores, India has no option, but to adopt ESG
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For India, it’s a big positive step, as it starts to bring its large public enterprises into public view as listed entities
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Mere posturing and verbal diarrhoea won’t solve for anything. Let us start believing in ourselves, as a nation, about our capabilities and direct it with intent.
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Holding up industry icons like Kiran Mazumdar Shah and Harsh Mariwala as examples, Steve Correa describes the characteristics that make the Indian leader distinctive and adaptive, agile and effective, both in India and abroad. It is our ‘Indianness’ that’s working so far, in our professional journey
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The availability of cheaper internet data, a plethora of smartphones with cost barriers being slashed down, ecommerce is becoming an easy adoption facility. It is not just restricted to top Indian cities, but well accepted across India. The majority of Indian demographics being in the less than 30 years of age bracket, the concept of instant gratification is a consumer priority. This has sparked the 10-minute delivery trend
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With the current global disarray, thanks to each nation playing and playing up to its own political imperatives, the concept of what’s the outcome expected in the current Russia-Ukraine war is increasingly uneasy
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Are Indian corporate boards, including that of the large startups, meek and mere puppets, when it comes to dealing with anger issues or public-outbursts of CEOs or Founders of their organisations? It’s amazing that many founders or CEOs get carried away with their swagger and throw away their hard earned goodwill
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Can more state governments grant large tracts of industrial land (with built-infrastructure) to industry associations so that their members ‒ the local state MSME manufacturers ‒ can set up shop and benefit from it?
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The often debated topic of strategy vs execution is misplaced. More often than not, the “best” laid-out plans don’t go as per its intent, simply because strategy did not include a clear road-map for execution. Good leaders understand this well
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